I’m not sure how many vSphere beta participants spent some time with the new version of VMware Orchestrator, or vCO, but I certainly did and I’m happy to say the product completely rocks. I have looked at a few of the orchestration tools on the market, and this is easily the best I’ve seen to [...]
The cloud is finally coming at the place I work, and a couple of chassis’ worth of HP BL685c G5 goodness arrived in the lab on Friday so that we could finally get to work with some scalability and performance testing before finalising the specifics of VM sizing and the cost model. Except it wasn’t [...]
Today was supposed to be a happy day. Finally, after months and months of being kept under wraps, the vSphere 4 code was announced to the world as having reached “gold” status.
But for VMware’s large enterprise customers and Cisco, the announcement had more insult than insight. I am of course talking about the introduction of [...]
I apologise in advance for YARP’ing (Yet Another Ranty Post) – truth be told, I’ve been biting my tongue for so long with regards to vSphere that I just don’t feel compelled to offer any VI3 based technical insights. So give me some leeway for the 5 or so days, things will return to normal [...]
The fun just doesn’t stop from those ‘ol pranksters over in Redmond. So we all know about the Microsoft Myths video that was recently published, but you all know me – I tear straight through the marketing bs and go straight for the jugular. Give me the cold, hard facts. That’s all I ask. And [...]
Ok, this one has been a long time coming for me – it’s in no way any kind of response to Mike D’s recent post about VMware, SaaS, and the Virtual Appliance Marketplace – that post simply reminded me that I need to get this off my chest.
The great thing about Virtual Appliances (VA’s) is [...]
Well this is quite interesting. In the latest round of marketing bullshit from Microsoft, they do a “myth busting” of some of VMware’s marketing. Which is all well and good, what kind of society would we live in if you couldn’t freely and openly comment on anything in the public domain.
But what’s interesting about this [...]
